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Article: Film form: an argument for a functional theory of style in the individual film.(Style in Cinema)
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- September 22, 1998
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Part I: The Different Domains of Style
As with other artforms, the initial problem of talking about style or form in film is complicated by the fact that the concept of style can be applied to so many different kinds of things and at so many different levels of generality.(1) One might use "style" to refer to whole periods of filmmaking, speaking, for example, of the German Expressionist style, or Hollywood studio style in the thirties. Or one might apply the concept of style to the work of a particular filmmaker's oeuvre, referring, for instance, to the style of Stanley Donnen or Yvonne Rainer or Theo Angelopoulos. In these cases, the domain of the concept of ...